Police-Fire Project bond approved
BRATTLEBORO — BRATTLEBORO - The Selectboard on June 7 moved forward with obtaining the $7.8 million in additional funding needed for the Police-Fire Project, according to a news release.
The board unanimously approved signing bond certificates and loan agreements authorizing getting municipal bonds through the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank.
Board Vice-Chair Kate O'Connor reminded board members that Representative Town Meeting Members authorized borrowing the additional funds for the project earlier this year.
Signing the Municipal Bond Bank's documents “is making it real, yes,” she said.
Finance Director John O'Connor explained that the town's loan will be part of a package of funding requests from Vermont municipalities. The bond bank will bundle the requests and shop them around to banks and lending institutions at the end of June.
The town will find out the interest rate on the $7.8 million after the bond bank finds a lender, O'Connor said in the news release.
Next round of windows for the Gibson-Aiken Center
BRATTLEBORO - The Selectboard approved the bid from local company Vermont Vinyl to replace windows in the Gibson-Aiken Center, according to a news release.
Vermont Vinyl will replace approximately 24 windows in the main gym area of the Gibson-Aiken Center, which was constructed in 1922.
The company's bid of $29,875 fell at the lower end of the four bids received by the Recreation and Parks Department. The lowest bid, Recreation and Parks Director Carol Lolatte said, was a little over $10,000; the highest was $77,000.
The department had budgeted $30,000 for the work.
Lolatte called this round of window replacement, “phase 2.” Last fall, the department replaced windows on the first floor. Vermont Vinyl also did that work, Lolatte said.
The department saw “significant” changes last winter in the amount of heating fuel the building used after replacing the first floor windows, Lolatte said.
Lolatte said the gym windows will now be energy efficient like the first floor windows. They will also have a grey tint to reduce glare from the sun and be made of impact resistant glass, she said.